1965

Members of the Indonesian Communist Party's youth wing are taken away in 1965, during the violent repression of communists in the country. Se 30. september, 1965 nedenfor.
(Source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/indonesian-communist-party-suharto-massacre-purge/)

The real Winston Churchill. By Richard Seymour (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 11 January 2018). “Churchill was no hero — he was a vile racist fanatical about violence and fiercely supportive of imperialism.”

When Churchill starved India. By James Woudhuysen (Spiked Review of Books, No.39, November 2010). “Madhusree Mukerjee’s shocking account of the exploits of the Empire is well worth reading.”

Winston Churchill: a modern myth, Part One. By Harry Whittaker (In Defence of Marxism, 15 October 2008) + Part Two (20 October 2008). “The purpose of this article is to draw aside the veils of myth and legend which establishment historians and fawning admirers have spun around him.”

Winston Churchill: Tory war-dog. By C.L.R. James (Fourth International, Vol.10, No.2, February 1949). Review of Churchill’s book The Gathering Storm: “Politically he is as stupid a reactionary as ever.”

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Architects of mass slaughter. By Malik Miah (Against the Current, Issue 197, November-December 2018). Review of Jess Melvin, The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (Routledge, 2018, 319 p.) + Geoffrey B. Robinson,The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66 (Princeton University Press, 2018, 429 p.). “These two books stand on earlier works and are important to understand not only the terror of anticommunism and authoritative forces, but also the complicity of U.S. imperialism.”

The ideological roots of the Indonesian Communist Party’s defeat in 1965, Part one (In Defence of Marxism, 16 October 2018) + Part two: The illusions in the peaceful nature of the ruling class (22 October 2018). “In this two-part article, Ted Sprague explains how the mighty Indonesian Communist Party was defeated and destroyed in 1965 by Suharto’s forces of reaction, resulting in the murder of millions of communists and their sympathisers.”

A crime of Anticommunism. By Max Lane (Jacobin, 9 August 2018). Review of Jess Melvin, The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (Routledge, 2018 (Routledge, 2018, 322 p.): “A new book proves that the Indonesian army was responsible for the systematic slaughter of leftists in the 1965–66 genocide — and that orders came directly from the top.”

Indonesia’s red slaughter. By Alex de Jong (Jacobin, June 5, 2018). Review of Geoffrey B. Robinson, The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66 (Princeton University Press, 2018, 456 p.): “From 1965 to 1966, the Indonesian military and its allies massacred hundreds of thousands of Communists — often with the active aid of Western, democratic governments.”

The ghosts of 1965. By Rohana Kuddus (New Left Review, Issue 104, March-April 2017, p.45-92). “Half a century after the massacres that wiped out Indonesian communism, and twenty years since the arrival of electoral democracy, how far does the legacy of Suharto’s New Order live on?”

No reconciliation without truth. By Intan Suwandi (Monthly Review, Vol.67, No.7, December 2015). An interview with Tan Swie Ling on the 1965 mass killings in Indonesia. He was a member of PKI and a political prisoner 1966-1979.

The United States and the 1965–1966 mass murders in Indonesia. By Bradley Simpson (Monthly Review, Vol.67, No.7, December 2015). “… declassification of just a fraction of the CIA’s records demonstrates that the agency’s covert operations in Indonesia were more widespread and insidious than previously acknowledged.”

The politics of amnesia (pdf). By Olle Tornquist (Economic & Political Weekly, Vol.50, No.40, October 2015). “Fifty years ago, a failed uprising against pro-US army generals (though not against the country’s president) in Indonesia became the scapegoat for pogroms and inaugurated a three-decade long period of authoritarianism.”

The forgotten massacre. By Alex de Jong (International Viewpoint, Issue 485, June 2015). “Hundreds of thousands of real and suspected communists were massacred, and a new, military-dominated regime under Suharto was installed.”

Indonesia: Remembering mass-murder. By Alex de Jong (International Viewpoint, Issue 432, January 2011). “The predominant form of the killings was an anti-Communist pogrom, targeting not only the leaders of the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Kommunis Indonesia, PKI) and its allied organizations but also their rank and file.”

Suharto: Covering up Western complicity (Medialens, February 12, 2008). “The death of the former Indonesian dictator, Suharto, on January 27 could have unleashed a flood of revelations detailing British and American support for one of the 20th century’s worst mass murderers.”

Indonesia 1965: A power move with far-reaching implications. By Clinton Fernandes (ZNet, October 16, 2005; online at Ozleft). “September 1, 1965 CIA … assessed that the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) was ‘by far the best organised and most dynamic entity in Indonesia’.”

US and British complicity in the 1965 slaughters in Indonesia. By Mark Curtis (Third World Resurgence, Issue 137, 2002; online at Markcurtis.wordpress.com). “With the release of more declassified US government documents on policy towards Indonesia in 1965, complicity in mass murder becomes ever clearer.”

Communism and Stalinism in Indonesia. By Paul Hampton (Workers Liberty, Issue 61, February 2000). “As radical politics revive today in Indonesia, activists will have to learn the lessons from the PKI’s history.”

US orchestrated Suharto’s 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia, Part 1 (19 July) + Part 2 (20 July). By Mike Head (World Socialist Web Site, 1999). “Damning new evidence has come to light pointing to the extent of the involvement of the United States government, closely supported by the Australian and British administrations, in the … massacre of up to one million workers, peasants, students and political activists.”

Lessons of the 1965 Indonesian coup, Part 1-5. By Terri Cavanagh (World Socialist Web Site). “This historical analysis was first published as a pamphlet in 1991. A second edition was printed in 1995.”

The Indonesian massacres and the CIA. By Ralph McGehee (Covert Action
Quarterly, Fall 1990; online at Third World Traveler). “The CIA desperately wants to conceal evidence of its role in the massacre, which it admits was one of the century’s worst.”

United States and the overthrown of Sukarno, 1965-1967. By Peter Dale Scott (Pacific Affairs, 58, Summer 1985; online at Namebase.org). “In this short paper on a huge and vexed subject, I discuss the U.S. involvement in the bloody overthrow of Indonesia’s President Sukarno, 1965-67.”